Thermal Physics: Entropy And Free Energies
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Finite-Size Scaling
Landau-Ginzburg Free Energy
Monte Carlo
Thermal Physics
Thermal Reservoir
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- ISBN 9789810248741
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2002
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is an informal, readable introduction to the basic ideas of thermal physics. It is aimed at making the reader feel comfortable with the extremum principles of entropy and free energies. There is a repeating theme: Molecules (spins) do X to maximize their entropy, and molecules (spins) do XX to minimize their free energy. This finally leads to the idea of the Landau-Ginzburg free energy functional. The author illustrates how powerful the idea is by using two examples from phase transitions.
